SPONSORS
SPONSOR THE 2025 FESTIVAL
The Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival wouldn’t be possible without the invaluable support of our event sponsors who help us deliver our free programme. This year, we are proud to be supported by a diverse spread of organisations, which you can find below.
If you are interested in supporting the festival? Download our sponsorship brochure below, or get in touch with our Festival Manager Yvonne at yvonne@gbpt.org
THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 SPONSORS:
National Trust for scotland
Established in 1931, the National Trust for Scotland is Scotland’s largest conservation charity and cares for, shares and speaks up for Scotland’s magnificent heritage. Over the last 94 years the Trust has pioneered public access to and shared ownership of some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and landscapes in Scotland. It cares for more than 100 sites, from ancient houses to battlefields, castles, mills, gardens, coastlines, islands, mountain ranges, landscapes and the plants and animals which depend upon them. As Scotland’s largest membership organisation, the Trust relies on the support of its members and donors to carry out its important work.
Mackintosh Illuminated is the National Trust for Scotland’s project to spotlight Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald, sharing, celebrating and inspiring as many as possible with their genius and the beauty of their creations. The Trust has been awarded £1.1 million development support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the project, which will help make Mackintosh and Macdonald better known and appreciated, internationally and at home, by creating an online learning resource and an expanded programme of property-based community and education work in Helensburgh and Glasgow. This project will also will also enable the Trust to continue and complete vital conservation work at the Hill House in Helensburgh.
Dentons
Dentons’ UK & Ireland real estate practice is a 200+ strong team working from five offices across the UK and Ireland. Supported by a global network of over 1,100 real estate experts, including a leading Scottish real estate practice, Dentons values brevity, integrity, innovation, and common sense as driving forces for client success.
As the world’s largest law firm, we offer clients more talent in more locations than any other legal services provider. In Scotland you will benefit from the cross-market insights of the 160+ lawyers we have on the ground.
Thomas Johnstone
Thomas Johnstone Ltd (TJL) is a specialist fit-out contractor with a well-earned reputation for delivering excellence. Initially based in Glasgow’s East End, TJL is now headquartered in Renfrewshire and delivers high-end projects in the hospitality, leisure, commercial, public, and retail sectors — from intricate heritage restorations and luxury hotel fit-outs to large-scale commercial developments.
At TJL, we take pride in our extensive in-house capabilities. From Fit-out, Building, Manufactured Joinery, Decorating, Small Works, FF&E, and Building Services to ongoing repairs and maintenance, we offer a seamless, single-source solution to our clients. Our UK-based manufacturing facility further enhances our capabilities, producing bespoke and standard joinery that combines traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques.
With a portfolio spanning hundreds of projects, TJL is trusted to deliver safely, on programme and on budget, while meeting the highest quality and environmental performance standards. Our commitment to safety is unwavering, ensuring that every project is carried out with the utmost care and consideration.
A great company to work for and a great company to work with; our people are the foundation of our success — skilled, experienced, and committed to excellence in everything we do.
Narro Associates
Narro Associates is an employee-owned Consulting Structural & Civil Engineering practice with offices in Scotland, North East England, and London. With over 40 years’ experience, motivation and a desire to extend the experience of the practice has led to expertise in all sectors including conservation, residential, commercial, industrial, hotel & leisure, community projects, education, health facilities and the public sector.
Projects include new builds, alterations and refurbishments, conservation of historic buildings and monuments, as well as landscape and townscape improvement works. We provide a professional and friendly service supported by experience, expertise, and the latest technology.
As a Practice, our engineers and technicians always take sustainability and energy efficiency into consideration. We aim to specify materials in our designs which can be locally sourced, are durable, and/or have minimal environmental impact in either their production or disposal.
Collective Architecture
At Collective Architecture we have been working for over 25 years within various sectors including housing, civic and culture projects, community facilities, learning and enterprise buildings, conservation/retrofit work and strategic planning. Working with both public and private sector clients, we encompass a wide range of views and approaches to the practice of architecture and foster friendly and collaborative working environments. In addition to delivering a vast array of architectural projects, we have three specialist divisions – Energy, Strategy and Conservation.
Collective Architecture is a 100% employee-owned architectural practice, currently over 50-strong, working across studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee. We shape buildings and spaces for, and with, everyone in society. We do this through our specialist skills, agility, and a participatory approach fused with empathy. We occupy, and enjoy, the creative space between idealism and pragmatism.
Our approach and service aim to deliver socially responsible architecture by means of collegiate and collaborative practice, where the voices of communities and society are listened to and ideas shared. We value and foster people-centred design to create spaces and places that really work, bring meaning and pride, and that are loved and cared for by those who occupy them. We promote an emphasis on nurture and joy, prioritising people and their comfort, health, and social well-being. We think holistically of ways to best evolve to our new realities. To minimise our carbon creation, we believe in conservation, re-use and retrofit as first principals while ensuring the creation of new buildings are low-energy and low-carbon to tackle both the climate crisis and fuel poverty.
John Gilbert Architects
John Gilbert Architects is a Glasgow-based conservation and retrofit practice with over 30 years of experience in breathing new life into old buildings.
With a deep commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, John Gilbert Architects specialises in transforming historic structures to be fit for modern life. Our expert team combines conservation accreditation with innovative approaches to delivering low energy buildings. Our projects have a focus on dealing with challenges of maintenance, climate change and fuel poverty.
We collaborate closely with clients, occupants, and community stakeholders to preserve architectural character while enhancing comfort, efficiency, and aesthetics. Our recent work includes high‑profile and award-winning conservation projects across Glasgow and beyond that demonstrate both technical rigour and craft-led attention to detail.
Page\Park
Page\Park is an award-winning architecture practice with offices in Glasgow and Leeds, operating across the UK.
As architects united by a commitment to the reuse of buildings and the regeneration of existing places they recognise that our built environment is not disposable. They seek to find the best qualities of existing places and celebrate them; to bring joy and clarity through carefully considered design intervention.
They are an employee-owned business with an unwavering ethos: of being a creative community, united by a common purpose to design creatively, with integrity, and to make a difference.
Since their foundation in 1981, they have earned a reputation for excellence in the conservation and creative adaptation of existing buildings. Now in our second generation, we maintain our commitment to the re-use of places, buildings, spaces and materials.
We have a diverse portfolio of projects in new and established settings, and we thrive from working in existing historic settings to deliver creative adaptation.
TIGERBOND
Tigerbond is an award-winning PR, social, digital, web and branding agency, with an office network spanning the UK, from Glasgow to London, and coast to coast in Canada. Working across multiple sectors, its creative team of storytellers, social experts and digital gurus build brands and protect reputations, working closely with clients to give them a genuine commercial edge.
With an enviable client list featuring household names like Vue, Specsavers, Cala Homes and Tesco, the team work at the heart of communities to deliver authentic audience cut through and drive impactful behavioural change.
Established more than four decades ago, the vibrant agency team lead on the issues facing most businesses today, including the delivery of sustainability and ED&I initiatives and the safe and impactful adoption and integration of AI.
